Salmon Arm-Shuswap | |
Province: | British Columbia |
Prov-Status: | active |
Prov-Election-First: | 1991 |
Prov-Election-Last: | 2024 |
Prov-Rep: | David Williams |
Prov-Rep-Party: | Conservative |
Prov-Rep-Party-Link: | BC United |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2001 |
Demo-Pop: | 49240 |
Demo-Area: | 7714 |
Demo-Cd: | Columbia-Shuswap Regional District |
Demo-Csd: | Salmon Arm, Enderby, Armstrong, Spallumcheen, Sicamous |
Salmon Arm-Shuswap or Shuswap is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.
It is the successor riding to the old Salmon Arm riding. For other historical and current federal and provincial ridings in the Shuswap-Kamloops-North Okanagan, please see Kamloops (provincial electoral district), Kamloops (federal electoral district) and Okanagan (electoral districts). All ridings in the southern BC region are "descendants" of the original Yale provincial riding.
The riding adopted its current name and had minor boundary changes from the 2024 election, which implemented the results of the 2021 redistribution.[1]
Population, 2001 | 49,240 | |
Population change, 1996–2001 | 1.8% | |
Area (km2) | 7,714 | |
Population density (people per km2) | 6 |
As of the 2020 provincial election, Shuswap comprised the western portion of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District and the northwestern portion of the Regional District of North Okanagan. It is located in southern British Columbia. Communities in the electoral district consist of Salmon Arm, Armstrong, Spallumcheen, Enderby, and Sicamous.[2]
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
2020 provincial election redistributed results[3] | ||||
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Party | % | |||
51.2 | ||||
34.1 | ||||
14.6 | ||||
0.1 |
|-|NDP|Steve Gunner|align="right"|7,051|align="right"|30.54%|align="right"||align="right"|$41,011| Conservative| Beryl Ludwig|align="right"|2,374|align="right"|10.28%|align="right"||align="right"|$9,378|}
|NDP|Wayne Fowler|align="right"|3,788|align="right"|16.46%|align="right"|$12,950|No Affiliation|Jeanette (N.O.) McLennan|align="right"|119|align="right"|0.52%|align="right"|$100|}|-|NDP|Calvin White|align="right"|7,869|align="right"|31.63%|align="right"||align="right"|$37,552|-|No Affiliation|Gordon Campbell|align="right"|810|align="right"|3.26%|align="right"||align="right"||Independent|Merv Ritchie|align="right"|204|align="right"|0.82%|align="right"||align="right"|$505|}|-|NDP|Shannon O'Neill|align="right"|7,687|align="right"|35.50%|align="right"||align="right"|$33,572|-|}